The Charles A. Dana Foundation

Charles A. Dana

Charles Anderson Dana (1881-1975) was head of the Spicer
Manufacturing Company, which became the Dana Corporation in 1946. He
was born in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan. He graduated from
Columbia University and Columbia Law School, and became an assistant
prosecutor under William T. Jerome in the 1907 murder trial of
architect Stanford White. He then served in the New York State Assembly
for six years. He was a director of the Empire Trust Company, the
Manufacturers Trust, the Fisk Rubber Corporation, and several companies
in England. His burial service was the Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandon,
Vt. (Charles A. Dana, Financier, Dies. New York Times, Nov. 29, 1975.)

He was elected to the board of directors of the German-owned
pharmaceutical company, the Schering Corporation, when Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Beane paid the Office of Alien Property. The
resigning directors were C. Gordon Lemude, Basil O'Connor, and Morrison
G. Tucker. They were replaced by Edward H. York, partner of Drexel
& Company; Harry C. Clifford of Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Leon
Johnston, former Vice president of the Chase National Bank; and Dana.
The checks were on the Bankers Trust
Company. (A Check for $28,251,960 Changing Hands Yesterday. New York
Times, Mar. 14, 1952.) He resigned in 1962, and was replaced by Douglas
C. Findlay. (Directorship Is Filled By the Schering Corp. New York
Times, Feb. 8, 1962.) Findlay was a partner in Merrill Lynch for more
than 30 years, until around 1962. He was also a director of the Charles
A. Dana Foundation. (Douglas C. Findlay, A Stockbroker, 73. New York
Times, Aug. 31, 1969.)

Charles A. Dana was an usher at the wedding of George R.D.
Schieffelin to Louise Scribner. Fellow ushers included Robert Olyphant Jr. and
Edward R. Tinker. (A Day's Weddings. New York Times, Apr. 6, 1904.) His
first wife was Agnes Ladson, daughter of Charles T. Ladson of Atlanta.
Her sister, Mrs. Frank Adair, was matron of honor. Samuel Gilford was
best man, and the ushers were Alden S. Blodget and George W. Carpenter,
both of New York. He was a member of the law firm of Dana, Gilford and
Gallatin. (Ladson-Dana Marriage Brilliant Social Event. Atlanta
Constitution, Apr. 11, 1912.) They had two children, Charles A. Dana
Jr. and Mrs. Morgan Cowperthwaite, but were later divorced. He married
Eleanor Naylor, daughter of W.H. Naylor of Carthage, Texas. (C.A. Dana
Marries Mrs. E.N. Stafford. New York Times, Aug. 2, 1940.)

His father was Charles Dana (1824-1906), from Branford, Vermont. "In
1848 Mr. Dana came to New York and entered the drygoods business. For
some years he travelled for himself and the firm of Dana & Co., of
Boston, in which cousins of his were interested, and in 1853 went to
Aspinwall, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and went to San Francisco.
During the trip he saw the possibilities of a Nicaraguan canal. He went
to Honolulu in the same year and established the first bank in Hawaii.
Returning to San Francisco, he became the third partner in the banking
house of Dana Bros. & Co. and was elected vice-president of the
North American Steamship Company, at that time the largest American
steamship company. The president was Cornelius Vanderbilt, and until
the death of the latter Mr. Dana was associated with him in business."
He was also associated with Edwin D. Morgan and Solon D. Humphries. He
was one of the incorporators and a director of the Erie Railroad, the
New York and New England, and the Des Moines & Fort Dodge Railroad;
president of the Orange Gas Company, vice president of the Citizens'
Gas Company, and president of the Standard Gas Company. He was one of
the founders and a governor of the Women's Hospital, and was chairman
of the board of directors. He married Laura Parkin in 1879, and retired
from business in 1882. (Obituary. New York Tribune, Jun. 6, 1906.)
Charles Dana's brother was Anderson Carroll Dana. They were sons
of Anderson G. Dana of Boston. (Died. New York Times, May 5,
1907.) The Dana family was listed in the Social Register in 1899.

Anderson Green Dana (1791-1861) was born in Cambridge, later Newton,
Mass. His medical training was at Philadelphia Medical College, 1812,
where Dr. Benjamin Rush was still a professor. He was an incorporator
of the Vermont Medical Society in 1813. (Biographical Sketch of Dr.
Anderson G. Dana. By Rev Bernice D Ames. In: In Memoriam, 1863.)

Laura (Parkin) Dana died in Brandon in 1932. (Died. New York Times,
Oct. 17, 1932.) She was a half-sister of William Winthrop Parkin. (What is
Doing in Society. New York Times, Oct. 28, 1902; Lareau Family Master
File, accessed 8/14/11.) He was a partner in New York City of Olyphant
& Company, China traders, which failed in 1878. "In addition to
taking part in the firm's assignment, Mr. William W. Parkin made an
assignment of his individual property to Mr. Henry Rogers," and "moved
his family out of their handsome home at No. 49 Fifth-avenue, near East
Twelfth-street." (A Wide-Reaching Failure. New York Times, Dec. 8,
1878.) William W. Parkin married Frances Moore Rogers. He was the son
of Dr. John Still Winthrop Parkin (1792-1866), Yale 1809, and Mary Ann
Hitchcock, sister of Gen. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, USMA 1817. His
grandfather, Richard William Parkin, emigrated from Yorkshire, England,
and married Mary Winthrop, daughter of John Still Winthrop, Yale 1737.
(Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 1805-1815, p.
274.) William Parkin, Skull & Bones 1874, clerk of the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, was a son. (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale,
1943-1944, p. 5.) Mary Winhrop was a Royal descendant of Edward III,
King of England. (Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry
Browning, 1891, p. 399.)

Mrs. Charles A. Dana (Eleanor
Naylor)

The Charles A. Dana Foundation made a gift of $258,200 for the MSKCC
recovery pavillion, occupying almost an entire floor. (Memorial Center
Receives $258,000. New York Times, Jan. 5, 1954.) Mrs. Charles A. Dana
was a longtime benefactor of the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a leading organizer of numerous
fundraising drives. (Cancer Center Unit Will Gain By Movie. New York
Times, Feb. 16, 1955.; Fashion Display on Wednesday To Aid Memorial
Cancer Center. New York Times, Jan. 31, 1957; The Belmont Ball Will
Raise Funds For 2 Agencies. New York Times, May 24, 1964.) She was a
Founding
Trustee of the American
Health Foundation, and was a
Trustee until her death on March 19, 1984. AHF Trustees Lasalle D. Leffall and
Hildegarde E. Mahoney were
directors of the Dana Foundation, which supports former HHS Secretary
Joseph Califano's CASA. (Directors, Dana Foundation. link died
http://www.dana.org/about/foundation/directors.cfm.) Edward C. Andrews
Jr., an emeritus trustee of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, was a director of the Charles A. Dana
Foundation in 1997. (1997 Annual Report, Charles A. Dana Foundation.) David J. Mahoney was a trustee and CEO of the
Charles A. Dana Foundation from 1977 until his death in 2000.

Opening remarks from CASA's conference by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
March 2000. Includes his smear about "the nicotine addiction of Pat
Nixon who got down on the floor of the President's limosine to smoke
during parades" - actually, this is spinelessness for not flaunting it
in the faces of the anti-smoking vermin. Funded by American Airlines,
California Healthcare Foundation, Charles A. Dana Foundation, Henry J.
Kaiser Foundation, J.M. Foundation, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, Primerica Financial Services, Psychemedics Corp.,
Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Schering Plough Corp.

Charles A. Dana Jr.

Charles A. Dana Jr. was president of the Cadan Corporation, a
private investment company. He was born in New York City in 1915, and
attended Princeton. He was a founding member of the Charles A. Dana
Foundation. He heard about Dr. Sidney Farber's chemotherapy work, which
led to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. "The Dana fortune had its
origins in the early 20th century. The first Charles A. Dana, a New
York lawyer, was representing a company that owned rights to the
universal joint, the device that was replacing belts and chains to link
the power of an automobile engine to the rear wheels of a car. He
recognized the growth potential of the device and bought an 80 percent
interest in the company." Ironically, Charles A. Dana Jr. died after
being hit by a car. (Charles A. Dana Jr. Dies at 86; Aided Diverse
Causes. By William H. Honan. New York Times, May 12, 2001.) The third
Mrs. Charles A. Dana Jr., the former Norma (Taliaferro) Kendall, was on
the Advisory Council of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in 2002.

Charles A. Dana 3d

Charles Anderson Dana 3d married Joan Whitney Meyer, daughter of
Lady Weidenfeld of London and William Blair Meyer of New York. She was
a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Payson (sister of John Hay Whitney) and Mr. and
Mrs. Cord Meyer. He is the son of his father's first wife, Marion
Connett Turrell. He planned to join a real estate company in Denver.
(Joan Whitney Meyer Married on L.I. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1971.)

Promotion of Anti-Smoking and Health Fascism by Various Dana
Institutions

Representative Louise Day Hicks, D-MA, announced that the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare approved a $6-million construction
grant to the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston, to be
used for construction of the Charles A. Dana Cancer Center Clinical
Investigation and Research Facilities. (Cancer Grant in Boston. New
York Times, Jun. 25, 1972.)

[John D. Twiname was the director of
the Naylor Dana Institute between
1978 and 1982, and a vice president of the American Health Foundation.
Between 1987 and 1997 the Naylor Dana Institute performed dozens
of
studies on laboratory animals attempting to find a way to blame
tobacco-specific nitrosamines
for cancer, in particular by Dietrich Hoffman and S.S. Hecht.]

Is Passive Smoking a Cause
of Asthma in Childhood? R Ehrlich, M Kattan, DE Lilienfeld. J Smoking
Related Dis 1993;4(2):91-99. Funded by the National Institutes of
Health and the Charles A. Dana Foundation:. "...it is concluded that
there is
sufficient evidence for public health purposes to target maternal
smoking as a modifiable risk factor for wheezing illness in childhood."
In fact, the death rates from asthma have
steadily increased since the anti-smoking movement began. They keep
repeating their lie over and over and are never held accountable for
their lack of positive effects on the rates of asthma.

Smoking cessation and tobacco control: an overview. KM Emmons. Chest
1999 Dec;116(6 Suppl):490S-492S. From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard School of Public Health. Funded by the U.S. Public Health
Service, the National Cancer Institute and National Heart Lung &
Blood Institute.

A research agenda for tobacco control. KM Emmons. Cancer Causes
Control 2000 Feb;11(2):193-194. No abstract. From the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute. Funded by the National Cancer Institute and National
Heart Lung & Blood Institute.

Intervention and policy issues related to children's exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke. KM Emmons, M Wong, SK Hammond, WF Velicer,
JL Fava, AD Monroe, JL Evans. Prev Med 2001 Apr;32(4):321-331. From the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health.
Funded by the U.S. Public Health Service and the National Cancer
Institute. "This paper presents a review of the literature that
evaluates interventions designed to reduce ETS exposure among young
children. In addition, it presents the study design for Project KISS
(Keeping Infants Safe from Smoke), an intervention designed to utilize
exposure-related feedback to increase parents' motivation for ETS
reduction and to reduce household ETS levels."

Comparison of the chemopreventive efficacies of
1,4-phenylenebis(methylene)selenocyanate and selenium-enriched yeast on
4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone induced lung
tumorigenesis in A/J mouse. A Das, D Desai, B Pittman, S Amin, K
El-Bayoumy. Nutr Cancer 2003;46(2):179-185. From the Institute for
Cancer Prevention (formerly American Health Foundation), 1 Dana Road,
Valhalla, NY. Funded by the U.S. Public Health Service and the National
Cancer Institute.

Reducing social disparities in tobacco use: a social-contextual
model for reducing tobacco use among blue-collar workers. G Sorensen, E
Barbeau, MK Hunt, K Emmons. Am J Public Health 2004 Feb;94(2):230-239.
From the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public
Health. Funded by the U.S. Public Health Service and the National
Cancer Institute.

Perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use among African
American young adults. GG Bennett, KY Wolin, EL Robinson, S Fowler, CL
Edwards. Am J Public Health 2005 Feb;95(2):238-240. From the Dana
Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. "This
project was funded in part by the North Carolina Governor’s Institute
on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. G. G. Bennett was supported in part by
the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Liberty Mutual
Foundation. K. Y. Wolin is supported by a National Cancer Institute
training grant (5 T32 CA09001-28)."

Smoking cessation interventions in cancer care: opportunities for
oncology nurses and nurse scientists. ME Cooley, R Lundin, L Murray.
Annu Rev Nurs Res 2009;27:243-272. From the Dana Farber Cancer
Institute and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of
Massachusetts. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the
National Cancer Institute. Review.

The role of reported tobacco-specific media exposure on adult
attitudes towards proposed policies to limit the portrayal of smoking
in movies. KD Blake, K Viswanath, RJ Blendon, D Vallone. Tob Control
2010 Jun;19(3):191-196. From the Department of Society, Human
Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health; the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston; and the American Legacy
Foundation.
Funded by the Harvard Education Program in Cancer Prevention and
Control, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes of
Health.

From the Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Faber Cancer
Institute. Tobacco use cessation and weight management among motor
freight workers: results of the gear up for health study. G Sorensen, A
Stoddard, L Quintiliani, C Ebbeling, E Nagler, M Yang, L Pereira, L
Wallace. Cancer Causes Control 2010 Dec;21(12):2113-2122. From the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Funded by the National Institutes of
Health, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Cancer Institute,
and the Centers for Disease Control. The
International Brotherhood of Teamsters collaborated with this intrusion.

The Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Work, Health and
Well-being is at the Center for Community-Based Research at the
Dana-Farber Institute in Boston, Mass. Funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, this center concocted the 175-page policy document, SafeWell Practice Guidelines: An
Integrated Approach to Worker Health Version 1.0 (by Deborah
McLellan PhD, MHS; Elizabeth Harden, BA; Pia Markkanen, ScD, MSc; and
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH; February 2012.) Using the workplace
wellness sections of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), it is the
blueprint for the NIOSH Total Worker Health™ program to meddle "in every aspect of
[workers] lives.... using the workplace as a platform for healthy [SIC]
life choices." The primary
attraction of the workplace for these creatures is, of course, the
opportunity for COERCION.

Glorian Sorensen

Glorian Sorensen directs the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Center
for Community-Based Research, and is Professor in the Harvard School of
Public Health’s Department of Society, Human Development and Health. Her field is strictly the manipulation of
people, preferably powerless ones (low-income, multi-ethnic,
blue-collar). "Dr. Sorensen is the Principal Investigator for
the NIOSH-funded Center for Work, Health and Well-being, based at the
Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute and Partners Health Care. She is the Principal
Investigator for the Massachusetts Cancer Prevention Community Research
Network, which aims to strengthen and expand partnerships between
academic researchers and community partners. She also leads the Harvard
Cancer Prevention Education Program, which trains pre- and
post-doctoral fellows in cancer prevention. Dr. Sorensen was awarded
Fulbright Award in 2003-04 for study and research in Mumbai, India,
with Dr. Prakash Gupta. This collaboration has expanded to include a
study of tobacco control among school teachers in Bihar, India. Dr.
Sorensen has served on multiple committees for the Institute of
Medicine and the National Academy of Science, including the Committee
on Strategies to Reduce Sodium
Intake (current), Committee to Assess Worksite Preventive Health
Program Needs of NASA Employees (2004-2005) [a guinea pig for the NIOSH
program], Committee on the Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers
(2001-2005), Committee for Behavior Change in the 21st Century:
Improving the Health of Diverse Populations (2000-2002), and Committee
on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve
the Public's Health (1999-2000). She received her Ph.D. degree in
Sociology and her MPH from the University of Minnesota." (Glorian
Sorensen bio. Sorensen Lab, accessed 3-20-12.)

Her publications go back to 1985 with the Minnesota Heart Survey,
with Terry F. Pechacek [now Associate Director for Science for the
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), who was then an associate professor
at Minnesota with the Minnesota Heart Health Program]; then with Judith
K. Ockene and John Pinney
[first director of the Office on Smoking and Health] in the 1990s.
(Glorian C. Sorensen, PhD, MPH, Publications. Dana-Farber / Harvard
Cancer Center.)

Sorensen replaced Walter C. Willett as PI of the Harvard Education
Program in Cancer Prevention Control in 2001, an ongoing program which
has received $2,041,307 from NCI since then, in increments of about a
half-million dollars a year. "This Program is designed to create a
cadre of researchers in cancer prevention and control who will be
knowledgeable about the current state of the science of cancer
prevention; expert in a specialized research area in which they will be
positioned to generate new knowledge to advance cancer prevention;
skilled in formulating and writing research proposals; sufficiently
well anchored in professional networks that they can monitor future
developments in cancer prevention and translate their knowledge into
research; and skilled in transdisciplinary approaches to research in
cancer prevention and control. During our 14-year track record we have
trained 77 trainees, including 39 pre-doctoral fellows, 20 postdoctoral
fellows earning a further degree, and 18 post-doctoral fellows focused
on mentored research. 38 of these fellows now work in academic
settings, and an additional 21 are involved in cancer prevention
research in other settings." This is about $26, 510 per trainee,
administered by the National Cancer Institute. (Project Number:
5R25CA057711-18. RePORT Expenditures & Results, National Institutes
of Health.)

Reducing Social Disparities in Cancer Risk: The Role of Work and
Worker Health - Sorensen has received $919,387 from NCI between 2004
and 2011
for working class worksite wellness lifestyle manipulation projects.
The project end date is 2016. (Project Number: 2K05CA108663-06. RePORT
Expenditures & Results, National Institutes of Health.)

Promoting Tobacco Control Among Teachers in India. Sorensen has
received $2,764,161 from NCI between 2008 and 2012. (Project Number:
5R01CA120958-04. RePORT Expenditures & Results, National Institutes
of Health.)

Karen M. Emmons

Karen M. Emmons has received $2,899,870 from NCI from 2007 to 2011
for "A Sustainable Approach to Increasing Cancer Screening in Community
Health Centers." "The proposed study aims to evaluate sustainable
strategies for maximizing cancer screening rates among populations
facing significant cancer disparities. Using a community-based
participatory approach, we will develop and implement the interventions
in partnership with Whittier Street Health Center, which has
implemented systems redesign according to the Chronic Care Model for
cancer screening." (Project Number: 5R01CA126596-05. RePORT
Expenditures & Results, National Institutes of Health.)

Karen M. Emmons has received $3,341,607 from NCI from 2007 to 2011
for "Multiple Risk Behavior Intervention in Health Care Settings." "The
proposed study is an efficacy study of Healthy Directions-2 (HD-2),
which is designed to: (1) increase reach of the intervention into the
target population; (2) extend the intervention to include smoking, and
increase efficacy of the intervention across all target risk behaviors;
and (3) promote and assess long-term maintenance of behavior change.
HD-2, a randomized control trial conducted in 10 health centers, will
assess whether the intervention effectiveness can be maximized while
transferring some of the intervention components to less labor
intensive and more disseminable formats. Health centers will be
randomized into intervention or usual care." (Project Number:
5R01CA123228-05. RePORT Expenditures & Results, National Institutes
of Health.)

Karen M. Emmons has received $2,892,454 from NCI in 2010 and 2011
for "U-Mass Boston / DFHCC U54 Partnership." "This submission is in
response to CAI 0-503 Comprehensive Partnerships to Reduce Cancer
Health Disparities. This application, submitted by the
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and its partner UMASS Boston,
describes plans to transition the successful U56 Partnership to a U54:
From Its Inception, the Partnership has been based on strong
Institutional support, significant personal commitment of the
leadership, and a belief in the institutional benefit that would be
derived from a successful partnership." (Project Number:
5U54CA156732-02. RePORT Expenditures & Results, National Institutes
of Health.)